High thoughts, pop culture nonsense, and sometimes surprisingly passionate arguments about the echoes of history we see all around us.
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Welcome back to the Smoke Show podcast, now available in VIDEO FORMAT with CLIPS INVOLVED because this show has taken over my life!
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Thank you to the incredible commenters who pointed out the first and last towel scenes in this show! Feels like we’re all part of a group project about towels now and I love that so much.
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In the words of Ilya Rozanov, I love you!
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24 May 2023
Ep. 20 - Bama Rush Doc Bad
Watched the new Bama Rush documentary on HBO last night and was so enraged by how vacuous and empty it was when it had SUCH RIPE subject matter that I’ve now recorded two different hour-long episodes in response (the second, calmer version is this very episode which turned out far more cohesively than the one recorded at 1:30 am last night)!
I know too much about the University of Alabama’s rush process because I love weird youtube subcultures and getting glimpses into systems I’ll never be part of and now, six years later, it all pays off because now the rush process has gone viral twice over on TikTok so now more people in culture want to examine what we find so captivating about the experience!
And this documentary…fails to do much at all. So I’m here to critique it, give my two cents, and contribute my thoughts on lives being lived in front of multiple cameras. The rituals, the narrative of achieving self-acceptance via gaining cultural capital, the lack of critical analysis of what these organizations promise vs. deliver, the racism, the hazing, the self-policing nature of eating disorders, The Machine, and all of the underexplored themes. Plus, a walk-through of what rush week entails because the documentary didn’t cover that part!
Anyway, I never want to watch anyone film a TikTok during a documentary again please and thank you!!!
Linky dinks!
Watch the Bama Rush Week YouTube video that started it all (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epxKVE4nRLw&t=1s)
Read about The Machine and it’s real-world impact on Alabama’s government (https://www.businessinsider.com/the-machine-university-alabama-all-white-secret-society-2013-10)
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10 Mar 2023
Ep. 19 - Scandalpump Rules
Oh baby the podcast is back! For how long, who knows, but this week I bought some legal weed so we’re talking all about the most recent cheating scandal on Vanderpump Rules.
I get into the Shakespearean nature of conflict-driven reality television, why Vanderpump Rules is one of the most watchable TV shows of all time, and the liability that comes with building a restaurant brand upon the personalities of historically messy people.
For a ~serious journalistic recap of the #scandoval, check out The Cuts article here! (https://www.thecut.com/2023/03/tom-sandoval-raquel-leviss-vanderpump-scandal-scandoval-pr-strategy.html)
(Of course, the fast and furious nature of gossip means that some of my information was outdated within 20 minutes of recording, but honestly my broader points still stand!)
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